Dodi Schultz
July 27th, 2005, 09:43 AM
Paul wrote,
>> The true definition (12) was a conflation of Chambers 9 and OED 2.
I didn't think that combining definitions from two different dictionaries
was permissible, since the rules specify that the source is to be "any
accepted dictionary"; that sounds singular to me.
>> The fret definition came from Chambers and the percolator from the
>> OED, apparently copied from Webster 1864 and marked ?US.
I happen to own a copy of the 1864 Webster (G & C Merriam). GRECQUE isn't
listed as a regular, accepted word. Rather, it's included in an appendix of
neologisms as a coined word for the "contrivance" in a coffee maker,
containing the grounds and having "minute perforations" in the bottom,
through which boiling water's poured; the word was also applied to the
coffeepot itself.
Whether GRECQUE ever made it into the dictionary proper, I've no idea.
There's no mention of it in M-W II (1934), and I don't have any volumes
from the years between.
--Dodi
>> The true definition (12) was a conflation of Chambers 9 and OED 2.
I didn't think that combining definitions from two different dictionaries
was permissible, since the rules specify that the source is to be "any
accepted dictionary"; that sounds singular to me.
>> The fret definition came from Chambers and the percolator from the
>> OED, apparently copied from Webster 1864 and marked ?US.
I happen to own a copy of the 1864 Webster (G & C Merriam). GRECQUE isn't
listed as a regular, accepted word. Rather, it's included in an appendix of
neologisms as a coined word for the "contrivance" in a coffee maker,
containing the grounds and having "minute perforations" in the bottom,
through which boiling water's poured; the word was also applied to the
coffeepot itself.
Whether GRECQUE ever made it into the dictionary proper, I've no idea.
There's no mention of it in M-W II (1934), and I don't have any volumes
from the years between.
--Dodi